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BIG PICTURE TWIN CITIES

BIG PICTURE TWIN CITIES (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100,000 to it, the largest being NEW SCHOOLS FUND ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2017
$257k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$100k
Net assets
$-38352
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 39%
01What it does

What Big Picture Twin Cities does

Mission

Big Picture Twin Cities, in partnership with big picture learning, will build on the unique strengths and self-knowledge of its diverse student body and staff through a rigorous, competency-based system that balances support with flexibility and personalized, student-directed learning with high academic standards, thereby ensuring all students are on a path to graduate from high school with the skills and knowledge necessary for success in their chosen colleges and careers.

As stated on its FY2017 Form 990.

Program

Big Picture Twin Cities will prove that all students, regardless of their socio-economic status, zip code, or background, when provided with a rigorous and personalized middle school education, will be on a path predictive of graduating from high school and achieving success in college. Every bptc student will graduate with the sense of empowerment and personal responsibility necessary to be a positive and innovative force for change in the world, and will use their skills and knowledge to positively participate in a democracy and a global economy in innovative and personally meaningful ways.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.

02The organization over time
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'17
total
New Schools Fundunclassified
$100k
funders
1

From the IRS filings of BIG PICTURE TWIN CITIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

BIG PICTURE TWIN CITIES draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 1 state in all.

CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like BIG PICTURE TWIN CITIES

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Minnesota

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

36% of spending goes to programs.

Program 36%Management 64%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BIG PICTURE TWIN CITIES: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds BIG PICTURE TWIN CITIES?
BIG PICTURE TWIN CITIES (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100,000 to it, the largest being NEW SCHOOLS FUND ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BIG PICTURE TWIN CITIES have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $100,000 in grants to BIG PICTURE TWIN CITIES.
Who is the largest funder of BIG PICTURE TWIN CITIES?
NEW SCHOOLS FUND is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BIG PICTURE TWIN CITIES find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing